The Marian Consort is a British vocal ensemble led by founder and artistic director Rory McCleery. They perform early music going back as far as the 12th century, and specialize in Medieval and Renaissance music, as well as contemporary music.[1] They tour internationally, typically performing with eight singers, with McCleery conducting.
Formed in 2008, they tour internationally and have released more than a dozen albums. They have performed newly commissioned music[2] and world premieres of music by a number of contemporary composers. For 2024–2025 the Consort established a talent development program for composers, Emerging Voices.
The Marian Consort (named for the Virgin Mary) is known as a champion of the music of 16th-century Black composer Vicente Lusitano.[3] They have performed his music at the BBC Proms and elsewhere and recorded the first commercial recordings of music from Lusitano's 1551 volume “Liber Primus Epigramatum.”[4]
In 2024 they became a partner in the 2024 Choir & Organ New Music Series.[5]
Discography
Una poesia muta: Art in early Cinquecento Venice – Linn Records, 2025
A Winged Woman – Linn Records, 2024
Inviolata (EP) – Linn Records, 2022
Vicente Lusitano: Motets – Linn Records, 2022
Adriatic Voyage - Seventeenth-Century Music From Venice To Dalmatia (with The Illyria Consort) – Delphian Records, 2021
Singing In Secret: Clandestine Catholic Music By William Byrd – Delphian Records, 2020
In Sorrow's Footsteps – Delphian, 2018
Pater Peccavi: Music Of Lamentation From Renaissance Portugal – Delphian Records, 2018
Music For The Queen Of Heaven: Contemporary Marian Motets – Delphian Records, 2017
Stabat Mater – Delphian Records, 2016
Gesualdo – Delphian Records, 2016
Loquebantur: Music From The Baldwin Partbooks (with Rose Consort of Viols) – Delphian Records, 2015
Christmas with the Shepherds – Delphian Records, 2014
Jean Maillard: Missa Je Suis Déshéritée & Motets – Delphian Records, 2013
An Emerald In A Work Of Gold (Music From The Dow Partbooks) (with Rose Consort of Viols) – Delphian Records, 2012
O Virgo Benedicta (Music Of Marian Devotion From Spain's Century Of Gold) (with Rose Consort of Viols) – Delphian Records, 2010
